Newbie question: how do I properly end a script?

yep, will be implemented in next version

that's your topic that make me remember this and make me wrote it, to thanck to you too !

Alright, I should have seen this coming, but ...

When I exit XBMC without aborting my script first (which works flawlessly now - thanks again ppic for the suggestion), the pid file is not deleted. So when I then restart XBMC and restart the script, it says it is already running and asks me if I want to abort it. Any thoughts on how to get around this, anyone?

I had the exact same problem when i was doing my Xinbox script back in the day.

I tried looking for a "temp" xbmc folder where I could store my "pid" file.
A folder XBMC wipes when it starts up etc. This would delete your "pid" file and you wouldn't have the script think its running.

I could never find this so I ended up making my script install/modify the autoexec.py script adding a line to delete the "pid" if exsisits.

so, as soon as XBMC is run. Autoexec.py is executed and deletes the "pid" if it is present.

Give that a go.

BTW: I had the same problem you had and this basically made me give up scripting Xinbox.
the deleting the "pid" file would always cause big memory errors back in the day.

It sounds like this problem has been fixed so I might have to get back into it

stanley87 Wrote:so, as soon as XBMC is run. Autoexec.py is executed and deletes the "pid" if it is present.

Give that a go.

Thanks! Sounds like a nice workaround. I never knew of the autoexec.py feature Ideally though, I would prefer a solution that does not require the user to modify a script by hand. After all, since the autoexec.py file is not located in my script's folder but in the main folder instead (and may contain other user-specific modifications), I cannot distribute it with my script.

Hi Again,

if you search through my posts.
You will find one for a good bit of python code to either create an autoexec.py or modify an exciting one.

It just adds your specific line to the file etc.
So, it does not change what is already there.

EDIT:
HERE IT IS: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29378

Ooh - I like it! I may very well use this approach in the near future. For now though, I will release the first version of my script first. I'm just too anxious to see if anyone is interested in it at all